The dialogue in this batch is genuinely hilarious and I need to highlight a few moments because the author has a real gift for making characters sound like actual people rather than plot devices. Song Qingqi's line 'Qiao Yu, you really deserve a beating!' while whacking him with a folding fan is the kind of sibling energy that's so specific and real. And then Qiao Yu's immediate pivot to 'Cousin, don't you want to see me? I'm your dearest cousin' is so annoying and so perfect — that's how actual annoying cousins talk. But the best dialogue moment has to be Song Yuejiao's exchange with the system: 'I've been doing my mission honestly all day and you didn't praise me, but you suddenly appeared and startled me when I made such a small mistake. I'll never be your niece again.' The betrayal. The drama. The sheer audacity of threatening to disown your cheat code. And then the system responds like a parent: 'You'll only appear once today. Compared to before, you've made significant progress, right?' It's coaxing her. It's treating her like a child. And Song Yuejiao internally notes 'She felt like the system was coaxing a child, but she had no evidence.' That's narrative voice at its finest — we're inside her head hearing her process the absurdity of her situation. The author lets the humor breathe instead of rushing through it.
Let's talk about dialogue in these chapters, because it's a masterclass in subtext. The most powerful conversations happen when characters aren't actually talking to each other at all. Take the classroom scene. Wen Chu says nothing. Xi Liye says almost nothing. But the entire emotional arc of the chapter is communicated through a pen, a drawing, and a glance. When Wen Chu sees the cat and leans in, she doesn't speak. When Xi Liye watches her attention return to him, he doesn't smile. The author trusts the reader to understand that these silences are louder than any dialogue could be. "Her attention is back on me"—that's the entire emotional payoff of the scene, and it's conveyed in five words. The WeChat conversations are equally brilliant. Wen Chu's messages are performative—she's trying to act casual, to tease, to deflect. "It's just that dating you really offers zero privacy, Classmate Xi" with that pointing finger emoji. But Xi Liye sees through it immediately. He imagines her: "cheeks puffed out, flustered and annoyed, yet trying her best to act composed. Like a small animal whose burrow had been surrounded by onlookers." And his responses? Minimal. "Got it." "Next time, we'll find a quieter place." Two words, then a promise. He doesn't need to explain himself. He doesn't need to reassure her with flowery language. His dialogue is sparse because his intentions are absolute. Even the forum comments have distinct voices—1L is shocked, 15L is judgmental, 58L is shipping them hard, 77L is skeptical. Each comment feels like a real person, not a plot device. The author has given each anonymous commenter a personality, and that's no small feat.
The outfit description alone deserves an essay. Let me just say: Haitang walks into a restaurant wearing a white square-neck top with hollowed-out Cattleya orchid patterns, red inner skirt visible through the layered fabric, three cloth orchids on her belt, and Li Chan—some stranger, a potential business contact—immediately notices and wants to BUY THE DESIGN. This is how you establish a character's world. You don't need a paragraph about 1980s China's fashion industry or the rise of private design. You just show us a girl in a room full of people and one person's eyes land on her dress and everything else falls away. The Cattleya orchid is such a specific choice too—it's elegant, slightly exotic, not something you'd see every day. It says something about Haitang without anyone saying anything out loud. Then you have the publishing house scene—Editor Yang's office, the scholarly atmosphere, the envelope with exactly 320 yuan in big unity notes. These details ground the story in a very specific time and place. You can feel the weight of that envelope. Thirty-two one-yuan bills. That's real money for a teenager. And the car scenes—Yang Xichen opening the door for her, protecting her head from the frame, the way he watches her from the driver's seat. The car becomes this intimate bubble where everything happens. It's where he almost crosses a line, where he reveals his deepest wound, where she comforts him without understanding what she's doing. Three walls and a windshield and suddenly you're holding your breath.
I love how the dialogue in this book perfectly captures the toxicity of Chen Xi's family. Her father's line "It's because you are not a son. You are an incompetent and money-losing guy" is the kind of thing that sounds so casually cruel because he says it like it's obvious, like it's just a fact of life. That's what makes it hit so hard. And Chen Xi's internal voice is fantastic. She's constantly doing this thing where she says one thing out loud and thinks something completely different. Like when Chen Wei asks for ten yuan and she hands it over while internally thinking "I say this, but what I really mean is that I won't give you anything in return." The gap between her spoken words and her thoughts is where the humor and the tension live. The mother's dialogue is also interesting because she's not purely evil. She gives Chen Xi twelve yuan and says "don't blame your dad" like she's doing her daughter a favor. She's complicit but also trying to keep the peace. That's more realistic than making every family member a cartoon villain. Even Chen Hong, the "tomboy" fiancé who bullied Chen Xi, gets a mention that makes you understand why Chen Xi wants revenge without needing a huge backstory. Overall the narrative voice feels natural and unforced. It's not trying to be literary or pretentious. It's just telling the story in a way that's easy to get lost in.
Nioh's a badass, even if he's a little full of himself. His power over the waves is sick. The action is non-stop, and the mystery of what happened to the world keeps you guessing. If you're a fan of seeing how things are built and appreciate some technical detail in your sci-fi, this is a good pick.
Never imagine such a calculated twist, now I understand why there is a note read its first three chapter and next chapter will be the best you read
Nothing hurts more than betrayal, I can't wait for the revenge because zero deserves so much better! ☺️good work author.
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I pretty like the main character to be honest. The main character does not make any dumb decision and pretty smart. Don't let me down author
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I really enjoyed this novel so far and greatly recommend it.Writing quality: it is simply great. I can’t remember any significant mistake.Update stability: to soon to tell, but great so far.Story development: I enjoyed it a lot as the story contains elements such as Kingdom building coupled with a good pacing.Character development: the relationship of the MC with the queen and all their daughters is really well done in my opinion. The only negative point is I think the MC is sometimes a bit too much of an idiot. The author however is bot trying to portray him as a serious character, so I did not find it too annoying.World background: too soon to tell as of chapter 85, but good so far
A new book. Buh I'm seeing a lot of potential. just added to my library.